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iOS 27’s big unveiling is just days away, and if you’re interested in installing pre-release software on your iPhone, you won’t have to wait long for the beta. Here’s the expected iOS 27 beta release date.

Update: The app appears to have been removed two hours after our story was published.

The third most popular free iPhone app in the U.S. App Store today is a mysterious productivity app that’s only available in Russian. That’s a pretty obvious red flag that something isn’t quite what it seems.

macOS 27 will be unveiled on Monday at WWDC, and rumors indicate the update will grant two wishes that longtime Mac users especially have been wanting.

iOS 27 is expected to be full of new features for Siri and Apple Intelligence. There are, however, a few other changes in store for some of the most-used iPhone apps. Here are a few new details from a Bloomberg report published today.

Apple is set to announce iOS 27 and an all-new version of Siri at WWDC in just a few days. Ahead of that, Bloomberg has published a monster recap of everything to expect at the event. There’s one specifically interesting tidbit: the so-called new Siri might have a waitlist for people who want to try the new features.

Apple TV debuts a new remake of thriller Cape Fear. This latest limited series adaptation is star-studded, with Amy Adams, Javier Bardem and Patrick Wilson headlining the cast.

Inspired by the 1991 movie, in Cape Fear, the world of a married couple of attorneys is turned upside down when a killer they helped convict is released from prison …

Epic Games is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Apple’s latest attempt to challenge two rulings in its long-running legal fight over off-App-Store purchases. Here are the details.

Soccer sensation Lamine Yamal has published a second photo featuring a pair of unreleased Beats headphones. Here are the details.

Smart access company Salto has announced that its hospitality platform now supports Room Keys in Apple Wallet. Here are the details.

Benjamin and Chance talk about the late-breaking iOS 27 rumors, including a new bill splitting feature for the Wallet app, as well as give their final expectations for next week’s WWDC announcements. Apple fixes Mayo’s iPhone Air battery glitch, and new Apple TV and HomePod models are apparently in the final testing stage. Also, code references reignite ideas about new cheaper (or free) tiers of Apple Music. 

And in Happy Hour Plus, on the eve of iOS 27, we give our 1 year retrospective on how iOS 26 has fared in the wild. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.

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The Apple Park Visitor Center store got a fresh batch of merch today ahead of next week’s WWDC, when Apple is expected to welcome more than 1,000 developers, students, journalists, and other guests to its campus.

Perplexity subscribers who work in design can now add a Canva connector to the Computer platform, allowing Perplexity’s desktop agent to autonomously turn data and prompts into editable Canva assets. Here are the details.

Following the news that Michelle Monaghan (True Detective, Gone Baby Gone) will join Your Friends & Neighbors season 3 as a series regular, Deadline has exclusively reported another addition to the show’s cast. Here are the details.

Instagram Plus is a new optional subscription plan rolling out globally for Instagram users at $3.99/month, here’s every new feature it offers.

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are expected to have the same 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch sizes as their predecessors, but rumors indicate those displays will come with a key technology upgrade.

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A rather alarming new report from financial services company Ramp shows DeepSeek catching on with US firms looking for cheaper alternatives to Anthropic and OpenAI. In its June 2026 series covering all of last month, the Chinese AI company ranked first among SaaS vendors for breakout growth relative to size across Ramp customers.

Needless to say, the security implications here are quite alarming.

Today Apple implemented a variety of age-related restrictions in Texas based on new legislation, and as a result, the Wallet app’s Digital ID feature just became far more useful for Texans.

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iOS 26 added a variety of new features for AirPods, including a Camera Remote setting to control your iPhone’s Camera app. Here’s how to use it.

LM Studio’s Locally app is being updated today with LM Link, a feature that lets users talk to LLMs running on their Macs right from their iPhones. Here are the details.

Third-party AI service Poke was just approved for use in Apple’s Messages app on iPhone, bringing an AI agent directly into iMessage for the first time. Here are the details.

ChatGPT’s memory feature allows it to learn about you and remember your preferences over time. Memory gives ChatGPT useful context for natural interactions that don’t need start from scratch each time. OpenAI has released new details on how ChatGPT’s memory feature is getting smarter and coming to free users for the first time.